Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-04-13

provide that to secure service upon
railway corporations service made upon
any local agent in a county shall be valid;
to prevent killing of birds for millinery pur-
poses under penalty not exceeding
500; to provide that overseers
of highways may grant any per-
son who labors in excess of his road
tax in opening highways blocked with snow
credit to be applied on future road tax; to
extend the lien law of the state so that
the owner of stations shall have lien on
q colt gotten by such stallion until the
colt is a year DID, to authorize the closing
of saloons in this state between the hours
of IL o'clock at night and 6 O'Clock in the
forenoon of the next morning, except in all
Incorporated villages and cities to repeal
the law establishing state park and pro-
viding that the lands embraced in the same
be placed in the market and sold.
MADISON, April 5.-The duties of the
members at municipal elections through
out the state prevented quorum, and no
business was done.
MADISON, April 6.-Senate bills concurred
In: Permitting the members or secretary
OF the state board OF charities and reform
to be paid their expenses for 100 days each
year instead OF sixty, when in attendance
upon foreign philanthropic missions with
the sanction of the governor, and author
icing the board to purchase l2O copies OF
the annual proceedings of the national con-
ference of charities and corrections, and
also certain other publications; providing
that service of summons may be made by
publication upon defendant in an origin
al action, when he cannot be found;
making the wrongful wearing OF Grand
Army badges a misdemeanor, punishable
by an Imprisonment of not more than
thirty days, or by fine not exceeding $40
or both; requiring hcentiates in pharmacy
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in drug stores, and to pass satisfactory
examination before the state board of
pharmacy and requiring the board to issue
an assistants certificate to persons having
two years practical experience in drug
stores, and who have passed satisfactory
examination; making counties and munich
palities liable for damages for harm
to person or property during riots.
After considerable debate the Horn
bill to tax express companies doing bust.
ness in this state was killed, it
being alleged that the bill would
be unconstitutional it passed as q
reason. All bills introduced relative to
the indemnity of persons injured or for
death sustained by the falling of the wing OF
the capitol were indefinitely postponed.
MADISON. April AFTER warm debate
bill was passed making corporations
or firms liable for damages for injuries
to employees, when such injury
was the result of negligence or
want of proper vigilance on the part Of
some other employe. The senate bill was
concurred in permitting the surplus in the
state treasury to be applied to the tax
levy, in the discretion of the governor,
secretary of state and state treasurer.
Two Joint resolutions providing for sub
hitting to the people amendments to the
constitution-one to abolish trial by jury
and one to allow the finding of a verdict
by / IS than the full jury sworn, were killed.
Bills were passed: To provide that abso-
lutte power of alienation shall not be sus
pended by any limitation or condition for a
longer period than during the continuance
of twenty-one years, and two lives
in being at the creation OF the es-
tate; appropriating $4,000 to the
Wisconsin Industrial School for
girls at Milwaukee, for permanent improve
ment in 1SS7-S; requiring the salaries of
county officers TO be paid monthly, in
stead of quarterly; making it misde-
| meanor to deposit saw-dust in any stream
stocked with fry deposited therein by the
state fish commissioners or where fish
abound naturally. punishable by maxi
mum fine of $1OO: making it a misde-
meanor for persons owning portable saw
mills to deposit saw-dust in trout-streams.
MADISON, April 8.-The Senate bill
amending the charter of the city OF La
Crosse was concurred in; also the Senate
bill to authorize the governor to place a
statue of Pere Marquette in the old house
OF representatives at Washington,
and the Senate bill appropriating
$4,000 for persons killed or injured
by the fall OF the capitol extension.
The Assembly bill to divide the First
Ward of the city of Milwaukee and to cre-
ate the Eighteenth Ward, which passed the
| Assembly some days ago, was returned to
the Assembly by the Senate with an
amendme 1T, and concurred in al amended
| by the Senate.
MADISON, April 9.-The Senate amend
ment to the Assembly bill was concurred
in requiring children, on conviction OF
crime, to be sentenced to the state in
dustrial school till they are 81 years OF age,
instead of Is. or until discharged by due
process of law.